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Pasadena, CA. March 15, 2016 – University of the People (“UoPeople”), the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited American online university built for underserved students around the world, has announced today that is has received accreditation for and is launching the world’s most cost effective MBA program. The MBA program is the latest addition to UoPeople’s…

1,000 SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO ACCESS TUITION-FREE DEGREES ONLINE Pasadena, CA. Jan 19, 2015 – University of the People (UoPeople.edu) President Shai Reshef has announced 1,000 places for South African students at the non-profit, tuition-free, accredited, online American university for 2015. The decision comes following the news of matric results in early January…

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OPENS GATES TO REFUGEES AROUND THE WORLD, TUITION-FREE UoPeople, UNHCR, HIAS launch collaborative project to offer tuition-free degrees to refugees worldwide. (Pasadena, CA. Sunday, Nov 23.) University of the People (UoPeople) President Shai Reshef in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Israel has announced the…

American Online University Offers “Educational Lifeline” to Ukrainians PASADENA, CA (February 22, 2022) – Following a request by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, University of the People (UoPeople) is opening all of its courses to Ukrainian students whose universities have closed due to the Russian invasion to enable them to continue their studies uninterrupted online.…

Credit: Illustration by The New York Times; Photography by CSA-Images By Peter Coy | Opinion Writer Last Monday I got an email from a university president about Tara Westover’s powerful Opinion essay this month on her struggle to start college with no money. To afford tuition, Westover would get up at 3:40 a.m. to work…

“Girls like me have bitter fate under Taliban dictatorship,” said Pakiza, a 25-year-old Afghan woman. “I want the right to be educated like any other woman in the world. I want to break the doors that keep me isolated.” Only the student’s first name is used to protect her identity. Following the Taliban’s return in…

Applications for the IB UoPeople Scholarship are now open to educators worldwide WASHINGTON DC, May 29, 2024—The International Baccalaureate (IB) and the University of the People (UoPeople) have signed a renewed partnership, bringing new features to a scholarship program for educators created through their collaboration. The IB offers international education programs for K-12 students while…

Higher education is at an interesting crossroads. The student loan crisis, astronomical tuition rates, a new generation of students questioning the value of higher education, and cultural shifts all paired with a tumultuous political climate lead many to question what the future of higher education will look like. In fact, there’s a clear need for…

Pasadena, California – With the cost of earning a college degree continuing to skyrocket and more Americans questioning the financial return of their investment in higher education, a new independent economic report finds that  University of the People’s return on investment (ROI) for a bachelor’s degree is 30 times higher than of the average cost…

University of the People is the world’s first non-profit, accredited, tuition-free university. Almost 140 thousand students from 200 countries study at the university. By Maxim Moskalkov Katerina Glubochenko from Nikolaev was only three months away from completing her university education when war came to Ukraine. However, despite the tragedy unfolding before her eyes, Katerina did not leave her…

Born in Texas to a working-class family that instilled in him “important values, and a real sense of wonder,” Ruben G. has had an impressive journey. Today, he works as a System Service representative at IBM and is earning his associate degree in computer science at UoPeople. Ruben says he has inherited his passion for…